42 responses to “Video Game Marathon Session”

About 3 years ago I was expecting a really important phone call. I started playing Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor at 4pm. The call came at 7am the next morning, 15 hours later. Wrecked me for days afterwards 😄

Metal Gear Solid 4 saw me at 12 straight hours because I *had* to know what happened next, as an adult who then pulled an eight-hour day at work. Totally worth it.

OR the time I 100%’d Dragon Age: Origins in less than three days, during the first week of summer vacation between first and second year of grad school. Also totally worth it haha. I was so enthralled by it and had given myself the week to be self-indulgent, so it worked out.

I studied something called music therapy. Basically what I do is I use music as a modality to help people do non-music things, like develop motor skills, or social skills, academic skills, coping skills, etc. etc.

It is! And I’ll chat your ear off about it if you let me haha. But we do have a national website at musictherapy .org, and the “About” section gives a lot of good information and summaries about what is it and what we do. I’m not sure how in-depth you are looking to go, but “Music, The Brain, and Ecstasy” is a great book to pick up, as is “This Is Your Brain on Music”; they get into some of the background that music therapists use to treat their patients and is very accessible. If you get a chance to look at any of those, let me know! 😀

First game that comes to mind is Final Fantasy 7. Must have spent a good 4-5 hours non-stop. Not my usual 30-45 minutes. The game story and characters were so engaging that it was hard not to be enthralled in their developing stories. Fun to explore as well collecting materia and what not. Check out my blog at https://trailergamereviews.wordpress.com/

I was 14 playing EQOA on PS1. My guild told me it was my turn to watch for the dragon to spawn.
They gave me a number to call if the boss appeared.
I gave up waiting around 3am… No dragon. It showed up when I was sleeping haha